How are detergent and soap are used to check hardness of water?

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Soaps get precipitated as insoluble calcium and magnesium soaps in hard water as a scum but detergents do not.
Synthetic detergents produce foam in both soft and hard water.
Thus, soaps can be used but synthetic detergent cannot be used to check the hardness of water.

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